Word: meter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aulis Montezumae Tripolis ad litora . . . give me an old Springfield rifle and I'll translate word for word, identify the meter and give you the principal parts of every goddam verb, at 1,000 yards, with the peep sight up! And look-I'm not a Latin teacher, but a businessman; but I had good teachers and liked the stuff! Semper fidelisly...
...Penny Earned. In Boone, Iowa, Mrs. Sam Saddoris moved her automobile to recover a penny that had rolled underneath it, did $102 damage when the car rammed a parking meter, caromed off a building, lurched half a block down the sidewalk...
...Beaumont, Texas were not surprised last week when home-town girl Babe Didrikson Zaharias, 39, won the Babe Zaharias Open, the local tournament named in her honor. The greatest woman athlete of the half century, Babe was an all-America basketball player, star of the 1932 Olympics (javelin, 80-meter hurdles, high jump), winner of all amateur golf titles and queen of the lady professionals. After the Beaumont tournament, Babe entered a hospital for a checkup, and doctors ordered her prepared for surgery. Medical diagnosis: a rectal malignancy. Athletic prognosis: the end of a fabulous career in big-time sports...
...McLane himself sees it, it was more of a catch-up than a comeback. Seven years ago, at 15, he was a national outdoor titleholder at distances ranging from 400 to 1,500 meters. At 17, as a crewcut, prep schoolboy (Andover), he became the Olympic 1,500-meter champion. But from then on, Jimmy McLane spent a good part of his swimming time gulping the backwash of such stars as Japan's Hironoshin ("The Flying Fish") Furuhashi, Australia's Marshall and Hawaii's Ford Konno. It was not because he slowed down; the others just...
...Yale senior facing military service in June, Jimmy figured that this would be his last swimming season ("Swimming is only for college boys"). He made it a good one. In the Eastern Intercollegiates last month, he won both the 1,500-meter and 400-yd. races. In the N.C.A.A. meet a fortnight ago, he doubled at 1,500 and the 200-yd., finishing second (to Teammate Moore...